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Alone with the Ghosts

from Perfect Sleeping Weather by Larry Fulford

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    Scrawled into notebooks from the familiar comforts of temporary homes and the passenger seats of mechanically unsound vehicles adrift on the highways and back roads of America, Perfect Sleeping Weather is fifteen years of thoughts, observations, facts, and fictions hammered into a collection of poetry that, according to one reader, "sounds like a sigh."

    In this, his first book, writer/drummer/comedian Larry Fulford reflects on the usual -- life, death, love and leaving -- while still managing to name-check Van Halen. Twice.

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Costa Rica’s sun beats down upon a beauty
I won’t see again until December 19th,
the day my roommates pack up
and drive to Kansas for Christmas,
leaving me alone with the ghosts.

I’ll give them the gift of skin
so they don’t feel so out of place,
lips to help me polish off
bottle of whiskey after bottle of whiskey,
hands so they can play poker with, and bet against, me
and turn off the TV if I fall asleep.

Present, Past, Future, and assorted dead,
they can share my bed.
I’ll take the floor.
(What are friends for?)

The story of our lives: Sleepless Nights,
passing through walls chasing termites.
I’m see-through too.
They can tell I’m thinking of you.

Moving through today
without even realizing it’s today,
supposedly working on something and driving a car
oblivious to road as they’re oblivious
to the idea of mortality.

Keeping me company, beating off loneliness
in a house in a town that’s somehow
tricked itself into feeling satisfied.

But not today.
Not December 8th.

Today I’ve convinced it otherwise.

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from Perfect Sleeping Weather, released January 1, 2021

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Larry Fulford is a writer and comedian and used to play a bunch of drums.

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